'Youngsters will get benefitted from Ryan'

GIVEN his playing and coaching stints with Gautam Gambhir, Ryan ten Doeschate's name started doing rounds as soon as the former took over as India head coach.

- FIROZ MIRZA

As expected the South Africa-born former Dutch allrounder was soon announced as one of the assistant coaches of the Indian team. Notwithstanding the demands of the Indian cricket, Ten Doeschate is well-equipped to ride out the storm believes his former Netherlands teammate Tim de Leede, who played 14 out of his 19 ODIs for the Dutch national team alongside the all-rounder.

De Leede spoke to this daily and underlined the reasons that could contribute to Ten Doeschate's success in his new role. Excerpts...

What he brings to the table Work ethics. What I really liked about him is that he wasn't very good at the beginning.

That's strange to say, he was just an average player but he worked so hard on his game that he became a batting allrounder. He got to such heights.